Emma McCrudden, Catching Lives Manager, pictured with Miriam Ellis, Activity Coordinator This Loneliness Awareness Week (12th to 18th June), Manager Emma McCrudden explains how Catching Lives is reducing social isolation. Emma, who has worked for Catching Lives for eight years and specialises in outreach work, says helping people who are sleeping rough is so much...
The Catching Lives day centre garden in sunny weather Catching Lives is appealing for support as the first Heat Health Alert of 2023 has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency. People experiencing homelessness, especially rough sleepers, are among those most vulnerable to the adverse effects of hot weather and are at higher risk...
Empty shelves (Canterbury Food Bank) Catching Lives and Canterbury Food Bank are forking out more cash than ever to meet rising food bills due to the impacts of the cost-of-living. At the same time, both charities are seeing an increased demand on their services as those most in need turn to them for help. Canterbury...
Patrick du Cassé, Debbie Wilkes, Trustees of The Philip and Connie Phillips Foundation and Catching Lives Chief Executive Tasmin Maitland Catching Lives has been awarded a £10,000 grant by The Philip and Connie Phillips Foundation towards its Volunteer Coordinator role. Trustees Patrick du Cassé and Debbie Wilkes met clients, volunteers and staff when they visited...
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury serves lunch during his visit with Caroline Welby to the Catching Lives Open Centre as part of the national Big Help Out. Photo credit: Neil Turner for Lambeth Palace. 08 May 2023Photo credit: Neil Turner for Lambeth Palace. 08 May 2023Caroline Welby and volunteer Joyce in the kitchen at Catching...
Catching Lives has this month appointed its first Chief Executive. Tasmin Maitland joins the Canterbury charity after many years working in the homelessness sector, most recently in consultancy and as Assistant Director at Homeless Link. She joins Graeme Solly and Emma McCrudden on the leadership team at a time of growing demand for homelessness services....
With the hot weather set to continue into next week, we’re continuing to monitor our severe weather provision for clients. From the 11th to 20th July we extended the opening times at our daycentre in Canterbury so that our homeless clients could stay until 5pm (rather than the usual 2pm) to escape the extreme heat....
Since the 11th July we have extended the opening times at our daycentre in Canterbury so that our homeless clients can stay until 5pm (rather than the usual 2pm) to escape the extreme heat. Canterbury Council have provided funding as part of their Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) to help us cover the additional staff costs...
For the last 7 years we have captured the experiences our homeless clients were having when visiting our local hospitals. A common issue was being discharged as street homeless with Discharge Notifications that stated ‘Discharged to own home’, but with the listed address as ‘NFA’, ‘Street homeless’ or even simply ‘Care of Catching Lives, Homeless Day...
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